Students lined up for hours in order to get seats to President Barack Obama's speech Wednesday at the University of Michigan Intramural Building. Across Hoover from the event line, five groups gathered for demonstrations and protests.

Members from various groups gathered in clusters and chanted in hopes of getting Obama’s attention.

The groups present included Keystone XL pipeline protesters, a group in support of acting on climate change, immigration reform protesters, a group with “S.O.S. Venezuela” signs, and a group waving a Ukraine flag.

Hare Krishna members also walked throughout the demonstration areas, playing music and joining in with chants.

A group holding a sign that read “#Not1More” stood next to the National Wildlife Federation, shouting chants like, “Obama, Obama, don’t deport my mama.” They stood at the barricade protesting the deportation of immigrants, asking for immigration reform.

“Ever since Obama became president, two million people have been deported. A lot of non-criminals are being deported,” Community High School sophomore Pamela Quintana said.

As the student line began to move, all three groups individually began chants in support of their own groups. As the day went on, however, the groups began shouting all of the groups’ chants with one another, in what appeared to be a joint-support of all the demonstrations.

Just before Obama’s arrival, two more groups entered scene. First, a group carrying “S.O.S. Venezuela” signs, with rope tied around their mouths, stood at the barricade with a Venezuelan flag. Shortly after, men carrying a Ukraine flag stood close by.

As the motorcade drove down Hoover Street, all of the approximately 50 protesters gathered on the corner of Hoover Street and Mary Street. Each group then began shouting their own chants and raising flags, posters and signage, creating a mash-up of multiple chants in one area.

After the motorcade pulled into the parking lot and everyone with Obama seemed to have gone inside, the chants stopped, protesters began to quiet down and all the noise that was left was the Hare Krishna group, singing and playing their instruments.